Flashpoint-Website

This is the GitHub repository for the Flashpoint website, located at http://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/.

Setting up dev environment

1. Download and install XAMPP from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html. Set your install location to the root directory (C:\ on Windows).
2. On the GitHub repository's homepage (which you're probably already viewing), click the green "Code" button and select "Download ZIP".
3. Navigate to C:\xampp\htdocs\ and create a new folder named fp.local. Extract the ZIP's contents into this folder.
4. Rename the newly-extracted Flashpoint-Website-master folder to flashpoint.
5. Navigate to C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\ and open httpd-vhosts.conf in a text editor. Add this text to the end of the file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/fp.local"
    ServerName fp.local
    <Directory />
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
        DirectoryIndex index.php
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

9. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ and open the hosts file in a text editor with administrator privileges. Add this text to the end of the file:

127.0.0.1    fp.local

10. Open the XAMPP Control Panel. If there's not an icon on your desktop, open C:\xampp\xampp-control.exe.
11. Click the Start button in the Apache row to start the web server.
12. Go to http://fp.local/flashpoint/ in your browser.

If XAMPP complains about ports being blocked/used by other processes, go back to httpd-vhosts.conf and change *:80 to a random number between 2 and 5 digits (such as *:43110). Keep in mind that doing this will require you to specify the port in the URL whenever you access the site (ex. http://fp.local:43110/flashpoint/).